From manual clinical criteria to machine learning algorithms: Comparing outcome endpoints derived from diverse electronic health record data modalities. by Shreya Chappidi, Mason J Belue, Stephanie A Harmon, Sarisha Jagasia, Ying Zhuge, Erdal Tasci, Baris Turkbey, Jatinder Singh, Kevin Camphausen, Andra V Krauze

“…Our findings indicate a need for improved data source integration, validation, and revisiting of clinical criteria in parallel to multi-modal ML algorithm development.…”
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The impact of using the modified Know-Want-Learn strategy in physics teaching on students’ metacognition by Ivana Z. Bogdanović, Jelena D. Stanisavljević, Dušica D. Rodić, Tamara N. Rončević, Zekri A. M. Zouhor

“…The pedagogical experiment with parallel groups was applied to determine whether the mKWL strategy affected students’ metacognition. …”
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Multimodal artificial intelligence for subepithelial lesion classification and characterization: a multicenter comparative study (with video) by Jiao Li, Xiaojuan Jing, Qin Zhang, Xiaoxiang Wang, Li Wang, Jing Shan, Zhengkui Zhou, Lin Fan, Xun Gong, Xiaobin Sun, Song He

“…Methods A total of 523 SELs from four hospitals were used to develop serial and parallel fusion AI models. The Parallel Model, demonstrating superior performance, was designated as ECMAI-WME. …”
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Coupled-inductor High Step-up Integrated Topologies: Synthesis, Analysis and Experimental Results by Jacson R. Dreher, António M. S. S. Andrade, Luciano Schuch, Mário L. da S. Martins

“…According to this paper, for the input section parallel integration, the circuits remaining output sections can be associated in three different ways, in a series, parallel or cascaded connection. …”
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The Role of the K-loss Coefficients Applied to Finned Tube Heat Exchanger Design  by Lázaro Canizalez-Dávalos, Edilberto Murrieta-Luna, Victor J. Cruz-Delgado, Claudia Y. Valero-Luna, Alan Bañuelos-Frías

“…In addition, equations fail to include the fluid distribution in each parallel circuit of tubes. Considering heat exchanger components as hydraulic resistances in both series and parallel configurations, an equation was developed to sum the K-loss coefficients for the tube bundle, bends, inlet pipe, and outlet pipe. …”
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ZeST: A Zero-Resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation Approach for Unknown, Unpaired, and Untranscribed Languages by Luan Thanh Nguyen, Sakriani Sakti

“…ZeST consists of two main phases: <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="deqn1">(1)</xref> Discovering semantically related speech pairs from unpaired data by leveraging self-supervised visually grounded speech (VGS) models and <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="deqn2">(2)</xref> Achieving textless speech-to-speech translation for untranscribed languages using discrete speech representations and sequence-to-sequence modeling. Experimental evaluations using three different data scenarios demonstrate that the ZeST system effectively performs direct speech-to-speech translation without relying on transcribed data or parallel corpora. …”
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Physical and mechanical properties of wood of plantation grown Albizia lebbeck in the savannah ecological zone, Ghana by Enoch Gbapenuo Tampori, Francis Kofi Bih, Kwaku Antwi, Issah Chakurah

“…The heartwood and sapwood proportions were evaluated and the samples were examined for hardness, bending strength (MOE and MOR), compression strength parallel to grain, shear strength parallel to grain, and air-dry density. …”
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Digital Architectures for UWB Beamforming Using 2D IIR Spatio-Temporal Frequency-Planar Filters by Soumya Kondapalli, Arjuna Madanayake, Len Bruton

“…A design method and an FPGA-based prototype implementation of massively parallel systolic-array VLSI architectures for 2nd-order and 3rd-order frequency-planar beam plane-wave filters are proposed. …”
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Needs assessment for a decision support tool in oral cancer requiring major resection and reconstruction: a mixed-methods study protocol by David Goldstein, John R de Almeida, Rosemary Martino, Douglas B Chepeha, David Forner, Paul Hong, Martin Corsten, Valeria E Rac, Andrew G Shuman, Anna M Sawka, Jonathan C Irish, Dale H Brown, S Mark Taylor, Patrick J Gullane, Jonathan R Trites, Ralph Gilbert, Matthew H Rigby, Jolie Ringash

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CTN 328: immunogenicity outcomes in people living with HIV in Canada following vaccination for COVID-19 (HIV-COV): protocol for an observational cohort study by Cecilia T Costiniuk, Jean-Pierre Routy, Shari Margolese, Enrico Mandarino, Joel Singer, Mohammad-Ali Jenabian, Mario Ostrowski, Jonathan B Angel, Ann Burchell, Darrell Tan, Colin Kovacs, Mark Hull, Mark Brockman, Sharon Walmsley, Aslam H Anis, Marianne Harris, Curtis Cooper, Marc-André Langlois, Iva Kulic, Judy Needham, Zabrina Brumme

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CWL-PLAS: Task Workflows Assisted by Data Science Cloud Platforms by Andrea Detti, Ludovico Funari, Luca Petrucci, Michele Dorazio, Arianna Mencattini, Eugenio Martinelli

“…We used this workflow manager to evaluate the performance of CWL-PLAS in a couple of machine learning workflows.…”
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Intelligent Motion Compensation for Improving the Tracking Performance of Shipborne Phased Array Radar by J. Mar, K. C. Tsai, Y. T. Wang, M. B. Basnet

“…In the simulation, the models of roll and pitch are used to evaluate the performance of beam pointing error estimation mechanism based on the proposed parallel FBFN architecture. …”
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Experimental Study of the Basic Mechanical Properties of Directionally Distributed Steel Fibre-Reinforced Concrete by Fang-Yuan Li, Cheng-Yuan Cao, Yun-Xuan Cui, Pei-Feng Wu

“…The differences between the damage patterns parallel and perpendicular to the direction of the steel fibres were evaluated in directionally distributed SFRC. …”
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Impact of micropolar effects on nanofluid flow between two disks by S. Saranya, P. Ragupathi, Qasem M. Al-Mdallal

“…This paper investigates how ester-based nanofluids flow between two parallel disks when subjected to micropolar effects. …”
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Experimental study on improving the utilization rate of underpasses of bundled linear infrastructure on Tibetan Plateau by Abudusaimaiti Maierdiyali, Yun Wang, Yangang Yang, Jiding Chen, Shuangcheng Tao, Yaping Kong, Zhi Lu

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate two “management and behavioral” factors (salt blocks and feces) in relation to two “structural factors” (underpasses’ dimension and distance of bundled linear infrastructure) along Qinghai-Tibet bundled linear infrastructure (Qinghai-Tibet railway alignment runs parallel to the Qinghai-Tibet highway) and Gonghe-Yushu bundled linear infrastructure (Gonghe-Yushu expressway is parallel to the Gonghe-Yushu highway) using infrared cameras. …”
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Financial Strain and Prenatal Depression Among Pregnant Women in Ibadan, Nigeria: Mediating Pathways of Intimate Partner Violence, Food Insecurity, and Social Support by Olubukola A. Wellington

“…Conclusions: Interventions should evaluate the effects of integrating mental health services and social needs assessments into antenatal and primary health care. …”
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Propranolol vs flunarizine vs flunarizine plus propranolol in migraine without aura prophylaxis. a double-blind trial Ensaio duplo-cego comparando propranolol, flunarizina e flunar... by Carlos Alberto Bordini, Marco Antônio Arruda, Marcelo Cedrinho Ciciarelli, José Geraldo Speciali

“…Fourty-five migraine without aura patients underwent a parallel double-blind trial aiming the comparison of the effects of propranolol 60 mg/day to flunarizine 10 mg/day and to propranolol 60 mg/day plus flunarizine 10 mg/day simultaneously. …”
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Navigator programme for hospitalised adults experiencing homelessness: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Lucie Richard, Rosane Nisenbaum, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Kerry McBrien, Michael Liu, Rebecca Brown, Anita Palepu, Jesse Jenkinson, Gabriel Fabreau, Cheryl Pedersen, Katherine Francombe Pridham, Sareeha Virani, Fred Ellerington, Alyssa Ranieri, Oluwagbenga Dada, Matthew To, Stephen Hwang

“…Quantitative outcomes are being collected over a 180-day period through linked patient-reported and administrative health data. A parallel mixed-methods process evaluation will be conducted to explore intervention context, implementation and mechanisms of impact.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval was obtained from the Unity Health Toronto Research Ethics Board. …”
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Electroacupuncture treatment for sarcopenia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Hao Li, Li Zhou, Xin Zhang, Qian Wen, Li Tian, Han Yang, Xirong Chen, Jinghan Yuan, Ning Li, Bingmei Zhu, Lin Zhang, Lingyun Lu

“…Methods and analysis In this parallel-design, randomized, sham-controlled trial, a total of 168 elderly sarcopenia patients will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either electroacupuncture (EA) or sham electroacupuncture (sEA) treatment. …”
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Association between the triglyceride-glucose-waist-to-height ratio and early arterial stiffness in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome by Yaxuan He, Yu Cao, Zekai Chen, Yuexiang Qin, Fang Wang

“…Abstract Objective To explore the relationship between the triglyceride-glucose-waist-to-height ratio (TyG-WHtR) and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), and to evaluate its utility as an early indicator of arterial stiffness in individuals with Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome. …”
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